I 2nd that notion and recall when my brother told me Boss man's real name We still joke about it and as marks, we have trouble going back and closing the curtain. Whenever we played video games, we called the Undertaker Mark! Lol That still is the funniest. You have this Deadman character and you're playing with you action figures, commentating the match, 'OH NO MARK IS GOING FOR OLD SCHOOL.....THE TOMBSTONE AND GLEN BEATS MARK!! Cheers from Canada
i loved those moments. shane acting like mickey. "you're gonna eat lightning and crap thunder". i love the training in the ring and shane seeing his dad beating up wrestlers and shane was like "damn, you're getting strong".
I met Mick Foley back in 2019 and honestly when looking at him, it’s a miracle that he is still alive with all the injuries and pain he has put himself over the years
My brother met him a few years ago in line at a comic con. Like they were both in a line to get something autographed by a celebrity. He said that some of the people who saw Foley thought that he was a giant homeless man who had somehow wandered in, lol.
I can still remember being in tears when Vince McMahon won the Royal Rumble. I was so upset that day I didn't even watch Raw the next night out of protest lol.
I remember looking at it for that short amount of time as semi legitimate. Vince was huge. Ripped. Next month when he and Austin were going to fight you almost thought it could be a real banger and that Vince could be a potential threat to a wrestler.
This "I Quit" Match is what makes me worry for Mick Foley as he gets older. We now know the long-term dangers of CTE from head injuries, and I really hope that he's getting the proper attention and care.
He seems fine, but I'd be shocked if he didn't have at least some brain damage that will take its toll as he gets older. Then again, I'm surprised the man is even still alive.
He's said multiple times in interviews that he's already suffering from memory loss, so I agree - I hope he's getting looked after and looking after himself!
"Wrestling's most employed man Jeff Jarrett" I nearly spit out my cereal. It's funny because it's true in a good way. I'm a major fan of Jarrett, it's nice to see him on tv.
One of the things I legit love about this time is how much like a fan Michael Cole sounds. He yells, and him slowly losing his voice over the span of a few months was awesome too
I was in a band with a guy who became the touring drummer of Dope, so I can always claim I am one person away from the band who wrote Vince McMahon's theme LOL.
17:19 I'm glad you also noticed how the repeating of things Vince says was so often a part of the hype packages. It reminds me of another one..."A BURIED ALIVE, BURIED, BURIED ALIVE, BURIED ALIVE MATCH"
Every time I’ve seen clips of the Rock vs Mankind I Quit Match, with those brutal chair shots, it makes me cringe every single time. The fact that Foley is still able to walk and function properly, is a miracle.
I had a friend who completely marked out during this era too. I had some idea of storylines and stuff, but he was completely fresh to sports entertainment. We worked at Best Buy together and every Tuesday, he would come in LIVID over how & why Vince would screw over Austin.
@@InfectiousGroovePodcast well they called it pro wrestling until people figured out it was scripted so they changed it to sports entertainment but the truth is all pro sports are this way. Obviously injuries and such cause change of plans but also think not all injuries are real as in WWE
@@ghostwhite1648 You think winners and losers are picked weeks and months in advance in regular sports? I understand the argument that some officials of a certain sport might favor one team over another and want them to win, but surely you don’t think every sport is rigged the way professional wrestling is.
What strikes me about looking back on the Attitude Era is everyone and everything was so over that a sub par PPV didn't even matter. I remember watching this with my friends, making fun of the Mankind v. Rock finish (got a big laugh when I said "good thing that recording didn't mess up and go "I quit, I quit, I qhjksgfihafksdfisgdjkgkf") shaking our heads at Vince winning the Rumble and in spite of all that, we all said, well, see you tomorrow for Raw
Sadly I have to agree with you on this one Zane. As a Rumble match, it was horrible. The main problem WWE faced at this time(imho) wasn't from WCW, but from how they were almost laser focused on the Vince/Austin feud. They literally sacrificed better storylines for more Austin and McMahon screen time, this Rumble is a prime example of it...
I dare to say...they were lucky that WCW went into the opposite direction and had too many feuds going, with none of them getting the focus they needed
I was 100 percent in on the Vince and Stone Cold feud. But this rumble was a little disappointing. I was extremely pissed at the end when Vince won. I remember watching this ppv at my brothers house so I was cursing up a storm 😂.
@@tapset yup, they sure did. From what I heard, there was going to be a brief Austin/Shamrock feud over the Title planned but when he saw how much ratings they pulled in after he got Stunned the first time, Vince insisted that keep going with it....
Thank you for finally covering this ppv. It's one of my favorite pay per views of all time. One of my favorite things about it is that it made a 12 year old me realize how tough Mick Foley is. To tell the truth, I wasn't sure he was going to live through the match. Many classic moments, in my opinion. On a side note, Mick Foley (Mankind, mainly) was my absolute favorite as a kid, and I still have tons of respect for him. I briefly met him last year. One of the most laid back, nicest people in the world.
Dude this is one of the first ppvs i watched when i got back into wrestling in 2018, thank you to the people that nominated this and you Brian for covering it.
Love how you repeated the Vince McMahon "I'm damn sick and tired, sick and sick and tired tired!" 🤣 my buddy and I would repeat that for the next few weeks in school after this 😂 many moons ago🤘
Absolutely LOVE the Steve Mufugin Blackman name drop. It's just a shame he had to eliminate himself from this rumble to fight another Robot Monster. Talk about a Jam Up Guy
Fun fact: Aaron Rift from NoDQ was sitting near the guy with the "hardcore porn champ" sign at 19:12. Not only do I remember him mentioning that once but I actually recognized him, he's the guy reach both arms out near the guy with the sign at the timestamp I gave.
One of the first rumbles I ever watched thanks to the anthology sets they put out on DVD, low-key always had a sweet spot for this rumble, and more for the 1998 Royal Rumble.
First PPV I ever saw. I had only started watching wrestling a few weeks before. This brings back so many feels. Mick Foley is one of my idols, and seeing him get nearly killed by The Rock broke my F’n heart… then the Rumble finish. As an “educated” fan, you can see it coming miles away, but as a fresh mark, DAMN IT I was left speechless when Vince won.
Rewatching that rock mankind match is so hard because at times Foley gives the Rock his back to hit but of course gets it in the head. Just such a crazy match overall.
We will probably never know the truth, but from the snippets I've heard about this match, it sounds like Rock really took advantage of Foley here to get himself over as a heel. Maybe he thought he was helping Foley look tough. But that was way too many unprotected head shots, and it sounds like Foley was not on board with the amount. That's a problem when you've got a guy handcuffed in a match.
That damn sick and tired damn sick and tired sick and tired promo I STILL remember after all these years !! This one and all the Vince Austin promo packages still go unmatched after all these years !! Love theseeee
This ppv has a special place in my heart. It was the first wrestling PPV I've ever watched as I gotten into wrestling just a couple of years prior. I had it copied on a VHS Taped which is now long gone.
This ppv had the best hype package ever. The instrumental version of No Chance in Hell. The dialogue from Vince and Austin. The hype it built up. I think I still have that clip on my computer
Luna never getting to be Women’s Champion will never not be a disappointment. That Rock vs. Mankind match will never not be hard to watch. And seeing Mick’s wife and kids freaking out in the crowd makes it all the worse.
I practically shidded myself when I saw the date for that buried alive match between Austin and Undertaker That's quite literally the day I was born. December 13th of 1998.
That rock/mankind finish was pretty clever tbh. I loved it. Win at all costs Makes me laugh how easy Austin eliminates shamrock. Isn't shamrock supposed to the world's most dangerous man? Lol My god your 38?!?! You look so much younger haha
I use to rent this one a lot as a kid. I loved the I Quit match, the multi-faction feud, the overbooked storytelling in the Rumble, and Austin kicking Vince's ass... now in hindsight I realized why Vince Russo shouldn't be a booker anymore
@@djpegao A ding dong with good looks but no talent who thinks she is a wrestler... Yah pretty much... Actually Eva Marie might be worse, though not by much. I'm just glad that the WWE was smart enough not to put the woman's title on her.
Thank you so much for this ppv review. This was the first ppv I watched on my friends black box. Also, thank you so much for acknowledging another channel Wrestlingbios! He will forever be known as Steve MUFUGGIN Blackman!
Brian Zane! Excellent Choice, I just recently rewatched this entry myself and I was just remembering how dumb it was to book Vince to win this Rumble just for the sake of a swerve and to extend the story. They could of did this differently. But they made it to Mania which is what matters
I always thought the count error was Long counting two different falls because it looked like Gangrel was being pinned first then X-Pac was, but I guess I was giving them more credit than I realised XD
I was there live. My third PPV live (I was also at Mania IX, WCW Bash At The Beach 1995, and later Mania 2000). It was fun, but weird live because of how much was done backstage with Austin and McMahon. Rock and Foley was crazy.
Living in the UK and only going to a couple of house shows and a TV taping in my time, I know that sometimes it's not the quality of the show but the atmosphere and all these PPVs would have had that in spades, but dang, did you pick some weird shows to attend. There's historic matches for the right and wrong reasons on every one of those cards.
@@Joe90h Oh I know. Mania IX is considered near the bottom of the list, but to be there in person you don't get that feeling. I mean we in the crowd didn't even know Hogan really won the title, we thought it was just him sending the crowd home happy. The Bash in 95 was just insane at the actual beach in the heat. Then there's Mania 2000, which had the match that would later be known as TLC. Also met a woman at Mania 2000 who was so convinced that Kane was really unable to speak, that I couldn't bring myself to tell her that he had no issues talking when he was Isaac Yankhem. And I've been to several RAW and Smackdown tapings that were great too, including the one and only match featuring Cena, HBK and Hulk Hogan as a tag team. I was seriously considering going to the Rumble tomorrow (I now live in San Antonio), but I just don't know if I'd have the same feelings I had for these shows.
@@thescott7539 There was a Smackdown TV taping I went to in either late 2006 or early 2007 in Birmingham (The UK one, not the Alabama one) here Mr Kennedy was getting up in Teddy Long's face about something or other, and the smart part of me suspected the Undertaker wasn't in the country so I prepared for disappointment. The atmosphere in the crowd when he actually said "I'm putting you in a match tonight against the Undertaker!" was electric, and if nothing else, I got to see that entrance in person, so it didn't matter that I can't remember a single other thing that happened on that night. I might hit up Cage Match and figure out the night and what the card was.
Sweet christ I had forgotten how utterly brutal that Rock-Mankind match got. For anyone saying headshots need to be brought back...watch Beyond the Mat and just see how his kids reacted, and the shape Foley was in. Strangely the first part of that match had some good comedy.
I remember a shoot interview with Luna and Gangrel, she said that she was told that if Sable got injured in this match, she’s fired (I can’t remember who it was, but she said that she knew it came from Vince). Then, when the match was over and Luna got backstage, nobody said a word to her, but when Sable got back there, everyone was clapping, cheering, and telling her how great she did. Luna then said she went into a corner to cry, and Owen Hart came up to her, told her she wrestled a good match, and stayed there with her when she was crying.
The I QUIT MATCH I Remember The Chair Shots Foley Took And Watching The Beyond The Mat Documentary after that and watching that Scene of Mick's Wife And Children crying In The Crowd Seeing Him Taking Those Sick ass Chair shots I felt so Bad for Them.
24:53 I always love the timing of that fan, hitting Vince with a cup, or balled up paper. Vince, the consummate professional, flinched, but otherwise ignored it! I thought it was telling, even though I normally hate fans throwing things, or getting too involved. Actually, I'm a bit of a Hypocrite on the 2nd one! Before the Pandemic I was at Raw in Montreal, had seats in the pit, right along the railing entrance. Best seats ever. Anyway. I did get involved in the show, but not intentionally. Corbin was running away from Strowman and tried to hide behind me. I snitched on him, by waving my arms, just to let Braun know where Corbin was. The actual t.v. broadcast missed some of it but I am there, forever a very, very, very, minor part of RAW fan History. Lol I'm the stalky white guy, with a black shirt, shaved head and sun glasses. I wanted to stand out! I had two signs. One for the Friendos and the Other for The Z man. Good times!
Wrestling With Wregret- According to Jason "The Solomonster" Solomon, he needs ruined something else about what you talked about around 14:30-14:42 in an episode of his podcast from the fall of 2021, I believe. According to him, he said that Mick Foley & The Rock agreed on 5 chair shots, but, The Rock gave him double the amount & sometime in the backstage area after the match was over, The Rock never checked up on Mick Foley to see if he was O.K. after the match & for quite a while, Mick Foley held a grudge with The Rock, but, they eventually patched things up, they were cool with each other, they moved on & the rest is history.
I miss those early Attitude era PPV's and their subtitles. WrestleMania XIV - X-Rated. SummerSlam '98 - Highway to Hell. Survivor Series '98 - Deadly Game. Royal Rumble '99 - No Chance in Hell. WrestleMania XV - The Ragin' Climax. It was neat. It gave the PPVs a cohesive theme.
I turned 10 in January of 1999. I loved the Vince McMahon/"Stone Cold" Steve Austin feud & was more shocked than upset upon seeing Vince McMahon win the Royal Rumble match
The 1999 Royal Rumble event bummed out a young Brian Zane but, quite frankly, this is my personal favorite review of the Classic PPV Review series. Not just because of 1:17 (thank you, Z-man) but because the 1999 Royal Rumble took place in Anaheim, California, which is 10 minutes from my city. Thank you, Brian Zane. Despite your disappointment, the 99 Royal Rumble event holds a huge place in my wrestling-fandom heart. :)
I was there at 1999 Royal Rumble I November vince McMahon win the Royal Rumble match Elimination stone cold help by the Rock I'm very excited I was there at Royal Rumble place on January 24, 1999, at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in Anaheim
It's still crazy to me that Boss Man was in better shape at 35 than he was at 25.
Yeah weird how many guys get older and in the best shape of their lives. Edge, big show, bubba Dudley, the lost goes on
Our conduces to the late-great Ray Traylor aka Big Boss man from Georgia that his real wrestler's Name.
I’m In better shape at 35 than I was at 25.
I 2nd that notion and recall when my brother told me Boss man's real name
We still joke about it and as marks, we have trouble going back and closing the curtain. Whenever we played video games, we called the Undertaker Mark! Lol
That still is the funniest.
You have this Deadman character and you're playing with you action figures, commentating the match, 'OH NO MARK IS GOING FOR OLD SCHOOL.....THE TOMBSTONE AND GLEN BEATS MARK!!
Cheers from Canada
Edge? Lol @@cameronbennett4762
The Rocky montage with Vince and Shane is comedy gold 😂
18:40 is the best part of it.
*CATCH THE CHICKEN*
I love Vince and Shane segments
i loved those moments. shane acting like mickey. "you're gonna eat lightning and crap thunder". i love the training in the ring and shane seeing his dad beating up wrestlers and shane was like "damn, you're getting strong".
Lets go Birds!!!!!
I met Mick Foley back in 2019 and honestly when looking at him, it’s a miracle that he is still alive with all the injuries and pain he has put himself over the years
I went to a show he had in Sacramento last year. I was so nervous meeting him after but also amazed that he's still here
He's alive because he retired at a good age. And didn't pop as many drugs.
Also, he was real lucky along the way! Let's just say, things could have ended differently, on many,many occasions.
Cheers from Canada
My brother met him a few years ago in line at a comic con. Like they were both in a line to get something autographed by a celebrity. He said that some of the people who saw Foley thought that he was a giant homeless man who had somehow wandered in, lol.
Does he still look attractive to u when u saw him ?
It’s even weirder when you discover that Ken Shamrock’s son is named Ryan.
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Kayfabe sister is real-life son?! My head hurts…
@@FromGototheGo
No. He named his son after his kayfabe sister. Your head may still hurt.
Was g his kayfabe sister his RL girlfriend?
Russo is smiling somewhere. ...
Ken shamrock deserves to be in the WWE HOF! He was an important part of making the attitude era work.
I agree...so many less deserving people are in, but not Ken? It's overdue.
He made transition from MMA fighter to wrestler very well.. Dan Severn not so much lol
Yeah, he was only there for barely over 2 years, but he definitely made an impact.
@@kodiiayyeee256that was WWE's fault more than Sevren's
It’s crazy how many clean wins he had over the rock and the different paths they took after
I can still remember being in tears when Vince McMahon won the Royal Rumble. I was so upset that day I didn't even watch Raw the next night out of protest lol.
Should've doubled down and watched Nitro too.
Nitro in 99? 😂😂😂
You missed the WWF rulebook. Let's just say it explains a lot.
I remember looking at it for that short amount of time as semi legitimate.
Vince was huge. Ripped. Next month when he and Austin were going to fight you almost thought it could be a real banger and that Vince could be a potential threat to a wrestler.
I remember going into this show predicting that Vince would win the Rumble. People were shocked when it actually happened lol
It can’t be stated enough but man, Zane is one of the GOATs when it comes to imitating wrestlers voices!!
I know dude his Terry funk gets a pop out of me every time😂
The second coming of Jason sensation
This "I Quit" Match is what makes me worry for Mick Foley as he gets older. We now know the long-term dangers of CTE from head injuries, and I really hope that he's getting the proper attention and care.
I'm sure he's fine.
He seems fine, but I'd be shocked if he didn't have at least some brain damage that will take its toll as he gets older.
Then again, I'm surprised the man is even still alive.
He's said multiple times in interviews that he's already suffering from memory loss, so I agree - I hope he's getting looked after and looking after himself!
Hes a leftist lunatic on Twitter so maybe that 11th shot was 1 to many
Mick Foley is fine I met him on numerous occasions and he told me he wasn’t even at Royal Rumble 99 so no worries folks.
"Wrestling's most employed man Jeff Jarrett" I nearly spit out my cereal. It's funny because it's true in a good way. I'm a major fan of Jarrett, it's nice to see him on tv.
One of the things I legit love about this time is how much like a fan Michael Cole sounds. He yells, and him slowly losing his voice over the span of a few months was awesome too
The mention of Dan Severn's theme being the BEST is highly appreciated, Brian. I catch myself humming it at random times of the day, all the time.
There’s that moment in the I Quit match around about when the handcuffs come out and you can just feel that uncomfortableness. You know what’s coming.
Genuinely horrific , imagine if something like this happened in 2023 the wrestler would have been able to sue the crap out of the company
@@meatypatte7125 😄It just happened again at the 2023 Rumble with Kevin Owens.
@@meatypatte7125 Even if he agreed to it?
The fact that you referred to Mr. Blackman by his proper title makes me adore your work that much more!
Wrestling Bios will love it
@BHammer exactly! Like I told my wife, when I heard it, it gave me UA-cam-ception 😂
A REAL Mufuggin problem!
The Vince training montage...classic
Hilarious
The camera portraying the chicken.
@@jp3813
Lost it at him screaming "I hate Austin" while he's pumping iron 😂
I was in a band with a guy who became the touring drummer of Dope, so I can always claim I am one person away from the band who wrote Vince McMahon's theme LOL.
17:19 I'm glad you also noticed how the repeating of things Vince says was so often a part of the hype packages. It reminds me of another one..."A BURIED ALIVE, BURIED, BURIED ALIVE, BURIED ALIVE MATCH"
That was just basically one of the things WWF loved to do with their video packages at the time, for whatever reason (REASON).
"This isn't gonna be, another D-X night.."
Randomly I've laughed about those old WWF/E videos with the repeating words
"Winner takes all, winner-winner-winner takes all!"
Very 90s.
What's it like to ki-ki-kiss Mr McMahon's ass?
Steve Mufuccin Blackman...... Bail bonds
Every time I’ve seen clips of the Rock vs Mankind I Quit Match, with those brutal chair shots, it makes me cringe every single time. The fact that Foley is still able to walk and function properly, is a miracle.
Wrestling Bios will be happy that you called Steve ‘Mufuggin’ Blackman by his true name.
I had a friend who completely marked out during this era too. I had some idea of storylines and stuff, but he was completely fresh to sports entertainment. We worked at Best Buy together and every Tuesday, he would come in LIVID over how & why Vince would screw over Austin.
“Sports entertainment” all sports create storyline now
@@ghostwhite1648 you're probably right. I'm not into sports much, so I really don't know what goes on to be honest.
@@InfectiousGroovePodcast well they called it pro wrestling until people figured out it was scripted so they changed it to sports entertainment but the truth is all pro sports are this way. Obviously injuries and such cause change of plans but also think not all injuries are real as in WWE
@@ghostwhite1648 oh for sure, I do know that.
@@ghostwhite1648 You think winners and losers are picked weeks and months in advance in regular sports? I understand the argument that some officials of a certain sport might favor one team over another and want them to win, but surely you don’t think every sport is rigged the way professional wrestling is.
What strikes me about looking back on the Attitude Era is everyone and everything was so over that a sub par PPV didn't even matter. I remember watching this with my friends, making fun of the Mankind v. Rock finish (got a big laugh when I said "good thing that recording didn't mess up and go "I quit, I quit, I qhjksgfihafksdfisgdjkgkf") shaking our heads at Vince winning the Rumble and in spite of all that, we all said, well, see you tomorrow for Raw
Sadly I have to agree with you on this one Zane. As a Rumble match, it was horrible. The main problem WWE faced at this time(imho) wasn't from WCW, but from how they were almost laser focused on the Vince/Austin feud. They literally sacrificed better storylines for more Austin and McMahon screen time, this Rumble is a prime example of it...
Rumble and the Corporation and Ministry stables are the perfect examples for this argument.
I dare to say...they were lucky that WCW went into the opposite direction and had too many feuds going, with none of them getting the focus they needed
I was 100 percent in on the Vince and Stone Cold feud. But this rumble was a little disappointing. I was extremely pissed at the end when Vince won. I remember watching this ppv at my brothers house so I was cursing up a storm 😂.
Literally?
@@tapset yup, they sure did. From what I heard, there was going to be a brief Austin/Shamrock feud over the Title planned but when he saw how much ratings they pulled in after he got Stunned the first time, Vince insisted that keep going with it....
Thank you for finally covering this ppv. It's one of my favorite pay per views of all time. One of my favorite things about it is that it made a 12 year old me realize how tough Mick Foley is. To tell the truth, I wasn't sure he was going to live through the match. Many classic moments, in my opinion. On a side note, Mick Foley (Mankind, mainly) was my absolute favorite as a kid, and I still have tons of respect for him. I briefly met him last year. One of the most laid back, nicest people in the world.
Dude this is one of the first ppvs i watched when i got back into wrestling in 2018, thank you to the people that nominated this and you Brian for covering it.
23:39 brian giving out boners.
I'm also a mark for Wrestling Bios.
Probably the most Russo rumble ever,
Confusing rules
Wacky moments
Chyna
And a screwy finish that doesn’t go anywhere.
Mr. McMahon wins the Rumble?
Nah, he surrenders it the next night!
Russo was all over this show that’s for sure, and maybe behind all of those chair shots Mick took from the Rock.
That explains a lot. I remember other kids at school wondering if Chyna wins, does that mean she gets a shot at the women's title.
@@reallyretro No it was the Rock who added the amount I believe
Love the Wrestling Bios "Mufuggin" nod there Brian! Lol
Love how you repeated the Vince McMahon "I'm damn sick and tired, sick and sick and tired tired!" 🤣 my buddy and I would repeat that for the next few weeks in school after this 😂 many moons ago🤘
19:57 - I'm loving these ""Wrestling Bios + Wrestling With Wregret"" crossover references, feels like a multiverse I can really get behind!!
Absolutely LOVE the Steve Mufugin Blackman name drop. It's just a shame he had to eliminate himself from this rumble to fight another Robot Monster. Talk about a Jam Up Guy
Fun fact: Aaron Rift from NoDQ was sitting near the guy with the "hardcore porn champ" sign at 19:12. Not only do I remember him mentioning that once but I actually recognized him, he's the guy reach both arms out near the guy with the sign at the timestamp I gave.
One of the first rumbles I ever watched thanks to the anthology sets they put out on DVD, low-key always had a sweet spot for this rumble, and more for the 1998 Royal Rumble.
97-98 were awesome. 99 was dog 💩
Some of it was on WWE 13.
All the crazy shit Bossman did, 1999 was really his year.
I miss Big Bossman ❤️
No one is better at reviewing these old school PPVs than Brian Zane. 👍🏻
Brian Zane is awesome
The bossman impression had me dying 😂😂😂😂😂. Spot on 😂
First PPV I ever saw. I had only started watching wrestling a few weeks before. This brings back so many feels. Mick Foley is one of my idols, and seeing him get nearly killed by The Rock broke my F’n heart… then the Rumble finish. As an “educated” fan, you can see it coming miles away, but as a fresh mark, DAMN IT I was left speechless when Vince won.
Rewatching that rock mankind match is so hard because at times Foley gives the Rock his back to hit but of course gets it in the head. Just such a crazy match overall.
Good catch
We will probably never know the truth, but from the snippets I've heard about this match, it sounds like Rock really took advantage of Foley here to get himself over as a heel. Maybe he thought he was helping Foley look tough. But that was way too many unprotected head shots, and it sounds like Foley was not on board with the amount. That's a problem when you've got a guy handcuffed in a match.
That intro! Lmaooooo CATCH THAT CHICKEN
That damn sick and tired damn sick and tired sick and tired promo I STILL remember after all these years !! This one and all the Vince Austin promo packages still go unmatched after all these years !! Love theseeee
This ppv has a special place in my heart. It was the first wrestling PPV I've ever watched as I gotten into wrestling just a couple of years prior. I had it copied on a VHS Taped which is now long gone.
It's a genuine miracle that Mick Foley is even alive today.
Wrestling Bios will be proud you finally got Steve Blackman said right. 👍
I love how you talk about watching this as a kid and revisiting it...thats so cool!!!
Steve "Mafuggin" Blackman! Yay, Wrestling Bios!
WrestlingBios Steve mufuggin' Blackman in tha house!
This ppv had the best hype package ever. The instrumental version of No Chance in Hell. The dialogue from Vince and Austin. The hype it built up. I think I still have that clip on my computer
Luna never getting to be Women’s Champion will never not be a disappointment.
That Rock vs. Mankind match will never not be hard to watch. And seeing Mick’s wife and kids freaking out in the crowd makes it all the worse.
I practically shidded myself when I saw the date for that buried alive match between Austin and Undertaker
That's quite literally the day I was born. December 13th of 1998.
Fun fact: First RR in 8 years that did not feature Bret Hart Shawn Michaels or The Undertaker in the WWF title match
I was at this Rumble! I had such a great time and it was a great show and a great memory. The I quit match was BRUTAL!
The Rock is wearing his bra shirts.
"Vince Russo as Vince Russo that is most Roussest." That's a phrase for another Wrestling With Wregret t-shirt.
24:09 Vince's head bouncing off the rope into the mat looked brutal.
I couldn't stop replaying it over and over. Hilarious, but definitely brutal.
That rock/mankind finish was pretty clever tbh. I loved it. Win at all costs
Makes me laugh how easy Austin eliminates shamrock. Isn't shamrock supposed to the world's most dangerous man? Lol
My god your 38?!?! You look so much younger haha
Tell me Brian didn't play that soundbite of Vince at 23:50 on purpose. Shit is spot on in light of everything we now know. 🤣🤣🤣
I crack up every time Zane mocks the weird stuff wrestlers scream
Forceable Entry is also the mantra Vince abides by in his life in general
feat. Rita Chatterton
Mick Foley: *Receives head trauma*
🏄🏻♂️: “Bummer, dude!”
That part with Mario was so funny I fell out laughing lol! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Captain Lou Albano
The way you said back in the shitter made me laugh more than it probably should have, I wasn’t expecting that lol.
I use to rent this one a lot as a kid. I loved the I Quit match, the multi-faction feud, the overbooked storytelling in the Rumble, and Austin kicking Vince's ass... now in hindsight I realized why Vince Russo shouldn't be a booker anymore
Is the Steve Blackman joke from @WrestlingBios, or part of a bigger joke I’m just unaware of??
I honestly always felt so bad for Luna having to carry Sable
yup an they said if she fucked up. she be out of a job. vince was jizzing in his pants for sable
Every woman who ever wrestled Sable had to carry her. She was an embarrassment to woman's Wrestling.
@@dougvanminnen7537 so.... we can say she was a proto Eva Marie then?
@@djpegao A ding dong with good looks but no talent who thinks she is a wrestler... Yah pretty much... Actually Eva Marie might be worse, though not by much. I'm just glad that the WWE was smart enough not to put the woman's title on her.
Loved this show, this was the 'Empire strikes Back' show of the Attitudes era
I've been cringing at that Road Dogg line for 24 years.
So the 2002 royal rumble has the highest ppv buy rate in the history of the show.... And people are saying Triple H isn't a draw
Thank you so much for this ppv review. This was the first ppv I watched on my friends black box.
Also, thank you so much for acknowledging another channel Wrestlingbios! He will forever be known as Steve MUFUGGIN Blackman!
The rock can’t say I quit because he refers to himself in the third person that’s how I knew he would win lol
Always nice to time morning coffee to the drops for these. Nothing better than hot coffee & a Classic PPV Review.
Hard to watch anything with Vince anymore with thinking about his affinity for 💩
Always look forward to the Classic PPV's. Well done as usual, BZ
They’re great
I find myself regularly coming back to this video just to hear Brian go 21:27
Great review and your impressions of Bossman & Vince amongst other have me rollin' 🤣
"Most employed man, Jeff Jarret", why this line isn't on a T-shirt is beyond me, xD
Brian Zane! Excellent Choice, I just recently rewatched this entry myself and I was just remembering how dumb it was to book Vince to win this Rumble just for the sake of a swerve and to extend the story. They could of did this differently. But they made it to Mania which is what matters
Can we please get In Your House: Back To The Sh!tter?
I remember watching this live and realizing how much I missed Vince on commentary since before Survivor series 97
I always thought the count error was Long counting two different falls because it looked like Gangrel was being pinned first then X-Pac was, but I guess I was giving them more credit than I realised XD
0:03 not the Mario 64 lmao
I was there live. My third PPV live (I was also at Mania IX, WCW Bash At The Beach 1995, and later Mania 2000). It was fun, but weird live because of how much was done backstage with Austin and McMahon. Rock and Foley was crazy.
Living in the UK and only going to a couple of house shows and a TV taping in my time, I know that sometimes it's not the quality of the show but the atmosphere and all these PPVs would have had that in spades, but dang, did you pick some weird shows to attend. There's historic matches for the right and wrong reasons on every one of those cards.
@@Joe90h Oh I know. Mania IX is considered near the bottom of the list, but to be there in person you don't get that feeling. I mean we in the crowd didn't even know Hogan really won the title, we thought it was just him sending the crowd home happy. The Bash in 95 was just insane at the actual beach in the heat. Then there's Mania 2000, which had the match that would later be known as TLC. Also met a woman at Mania 2000 who was so convinced that Kane was really unable to speak, that I couldn't bring myself to tell her that he had no issues talking when he was Isaac Yankhem. And I've been to several RAW and Smackdown tapings that were great too, including the one and only match featuring Cena, HBK and Hulk Hogan as a tag team.
I was seriously considering going to the Rumble tomorrow (I now live in San Antonio), but I just don't know if I'd have the same feelings I had for these shows.
@@thescott7539 There was a Smackdown TV taping I went to in either late 2006 or early 2007 in Birmingham (The UK one, not the Alabama one) here Mr Kennedy was getting up in Teddy Long's face about something or other, and the smart part of me suspected the Undertaker wasn't in the country so I prepared for disappointment.
The atmosphere in the crowd when he actually said "I'm putting you in a match tonight against the Undertaker!" was electric, and if nothing else, I got to see that entrance in person, so it didn't matter that I can't remember a single other thing that happened on that night. I might hit up Cage Match and figure out the night and what the card was.
Wait a minute, Double K, Kevin Kelly had facial hair? You learn something new everyday.
Nice shout out to wrestling bios 🤣🤣
You two are my favorite channels!
I swear there is only Vince that holds a middle finger like him
Pros
Rock VS Mankind
Cons
Everything Else
I’d say the rumble was a fun little car crash
@@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090But it was very forgettable aside from the shtick with Austin & McMahon.
biggest con Gangrel vs X-Pac we all know Gangrel clearly won that
@@TyMarshall007 Yeah
Happy birthday, Zane! You are truly a gift, don't ever forget that
Sweet christ I had forgotten how utterly brutal that Rock-Mankind match got. For anyone saying headshots need to be brought back...watch Beyond the Mat and just see how his kids reacted, and the shape Foley was in. Strangely the first part of that match had some good comedy.
Corporate Rock was the best and The Rock beating the HELL out of mankind at royal Rumble 1999 was awesome
Yes! I remember watching this live on PPV and seeing Gangrel's entrance and seeing those guys moving back and forth and laughing my ass off!
I remember having a “Rumble” after the PPV in the yard where about 10 of us got together to watch this show.
😂😂😂
Oh to be a teenager
😂😂
I remember a shoot interview with Luna and Gangrel, she said that she was told that if Sable got injured in this match, she’s fired (I can’t remember who it was, but she said that she knew it came from Vince). Then, when the match was over and Luna got backstage, nobody said a word to her, but when Sable got back there, everyone was clapping, cheering, and telling her how great she did. Luna then said she went into a corner to cry, and Owen Hart came up to her, told her she wrestled a good match, and stayed there with her when she was crying.
The I QUIT MATCH I Remember The Chair Shots Foley Took And Watching The Beyond The Mat Documentary after that and watching that Scene of Mick's Wife And Children crying In The Crowd Seeing Him Taking Those Sick ass Chair shots I felt so Bad for Them.
My introduction to wrestling was that scene
I love Beyond The Mat
24:53
I always love the timing of that fan, hitting Vince with a cup, or balled up paper.
Vince, the consummate professional, flinched, but otherwise ignored it!
I thought it was telling, even though I normally hate fans throwing things, or getting too involved. Actually, I'm a bit of a Hypocrite on the 2nd one!
Before the Pandemic I was at Raw in Montreal, had seats in the pit, right along the railing entrance.
Best seats ever. Anyway. I did get involved in the show, but not intentionally. Corbin was running away from Strowman and tried to hide behind me. I snitched on him, by waving my arms, just to let Braun know where Corbin was. The actual t.v. broadcast missed some of it but I am there, forever a very, very, very, minor part of RAW fan History. Lol
I'm the stalky white guy, with a black shirt, shaved head and sun glasses. I wanted to stand out!
I had two signs. One for the Friendos and the Other for The Z man. Good times!
HANDS LIKE THIS!! HANDS LIKE THIS!!
Wrestling With Wregret- According to Jason "The Solomonster" Solomon, he needs ruined something else about what you talked about around 14:30-14:42 in an episode of his podcast from the fall of 2021, I believe.
According to him, he said that Mick Foley & The Rock agreed on 5 chair shots, but, The Rock gave him double the amount & sometime in the backstage area after the match was over, The Rock never checked up on Mick Foley to see if he was O.K. after the match & for quite a while, Mick Foley held a grudge with The Rock, but, they eventually patched things up, they were cool with each other, they moved on & the rest is history.
It’s amazing that Mick Foley didn’t suffer CTE after those chair shots to the head.
I miss those early Attitude era PPV's and their subtitles. WrestleMania XIV - X-Rated. SummerSlam '98 - Highway to Hell. Survivor Series '98 - Deadly Game. Royal Rumble '99 - No Chance in Hell. WrestleMania XV - The Ragin' Climax.
It was neat. It gave the PPVs a cohesive theme.
Oh boy Brians about to review my least favorite Rumble ever😀😀😀
Better than 2012
I turned 10 in January of 1999.
I loved the Vince McMahon/"Stone Cold" Steve Austin feud & was more shocked than upset upon seeing Vince McMahon win the Royal Rumble match
The 1999 Royal Rumble event bummed out a young Brian Zane but, quite frankly, this is my personal favorite review of the Classic PPV Review series.
Not just because of 1:17 (thank you, Z-man) but because the 1999 Royal Rumble took place in Anaheim, California, which is 10 minutes from my city.
Thank you, Brian Zane. Despite your disappointment, the 99 Royal Rumble event holds a huge place in my wrestling-fandom heart. :)
I was there at 1999 Royal Rumble I November vince McMahon win the Royal Rumble match Elimination stone cold help by the Rock I'm very excited I was there at Royal Rumble place on January 24, 1999, at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in Anaheim